Pack – 1994 Collector’s Choice 1 – NL

“Produced by Upper Deck, this 670 standard-size card set was distributed in two series of 320 and 350. Cards were issued in foil-wrapped 12-card packs and factory sets (of which contained five Gold Signature cards for a total of 675 cards). Basic card fronts feature color player action photos with white borders that are highlighted by vertical gray pinstripes. Subsets include Rookie Class (1-20), First Draft Picks (21-30), Top Performers (306-315), Up Close (631-640) and Future Foundation (641-650). Rookie Cards include Michael Jordan and Alex Rodriguez. A legitimate variation on the Alex Rodriguez card (#647) was verified several years after release. The standard card features the “A” from Alex on the card back text in grey/silver whereas the variation features his name in white. It’s believed that the A-Rod “White A” variation is a significantly tougher card but exact estimates of it’s scarcity are not known. In subsequent years other cards (such as Johnny Damon) were also verified to have this White Letter variation – thus it’s generally believed that the entire Future Foundations subset was produced with white (and standard grey) letter variations.”

Pack Contents

12 cards each

Cost

$0.40 each (part of a large group of packs picked up at a show)

Description

This post is for three different packs. Each has an Andy Warhol-esque picture of an NL star on the front. One is Deion Sanders (Atlanta Braves); another is Mike Piazza (LA Dodgers); and the last is a very svelte Barry Bonds (SF Giants). There may be other NL players on these packs, but these are the only three of which I’m aware.

There’s not much to add to this post. The images pretty much speak for themselves. I’m normally not a fan of white borders on cards, but these seems to work OK. For a bottom level set for the budget collector, these cards are alright. They are nothing fancy, but of course nobody should expect them to be. Nothing wrong with that for this set.

These cards didn’t fare too well since their printing nearly 20 years ago. They stuck together like crazy. A recent 1993 Upper Deck pack did the exact same thing on me, but these packs were quite a bit worse. Maybe there was something about Upper Deck’s cards that made them very prone to sticking. It’s something to consider if you plan on breaking a box of this stuff and hope to find really nice cards. Regardless, you can’t exactly blame Upper Deck because their cards don’t store for two decades in packs.

One pleasant surprise was the Gold Signature card. That is a 1:36 pack pull. Pretty good.